Robert W. Benson
Professor Emeritus of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1094
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: robert.benson@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
AB, Columbia College
JD, University of California Berkeley
Robert Benson studied at the University of Madrid in 1965 and was a Boalt Hall/Ford Foundation International Legal Studies Fellow in Brazil (1969), studying the delivery of legal aid to slum dwellers. Before joining the Loyola faculty in 1973, he worked in the Connecticut Department of Community Affairs and was an associate attorney with Cox, Langford & Brown in Washington DC. Benson has given pro bono legal advice to a variety of environmental and human rights organizations and was the founder of Loyola's Summer Program in Central America.
Professional Memberships and Activities
National Lawyers Guild
The Interpretation Game: How Judges and Lawyers Make the Law (Carolina Academic Press 2008).
"The U'wa Indians of Colombia," The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005)
"Changing Police Culture: The Sine Qua Non of Reform," 34 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 681 (2001)
Challenging Corporate Rule (Apex Press, NY, 1999)
Law of Global Warming, International Environmental Law, Public Interest Law and Social Change, Corporate Legal and Ethical Accountability, U.S. and International Indigenous Peoples Law.